The Voice Podcast with Zayda Sorrell-Medina
Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a social scientist and educator. Her podcast integrates research and personal narratives to shed light on urban and social work topics affecting marginalized communities. Season 1 features topics related to foster care, youth homelessness, and adoption.
Podcasting since 2023 • 9 episodes
The Voice Podcast with Zayda Sorrell-Medina
Latest Episodes
Episode 9 | Coming Out of Stigma: Foster Care and Youth Homelessness
Drawing upon my personal narrative, this episode touches up themes related to foster care and adoption stigma and secrecy, race and ethnicity, and resilience.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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Episode 8 | Foster Care and Adoption: Invisible Oppression
This episode sheds light on the invisible oppression that individuals face with experience of foster care, adoption, youth homelessness. It is a call to action to for my listeners to take action to begin dismantling their oppression.
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Episode 8
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Episode 7 | Embracing my unconventional family
This episode reveals the beauty and hiccups of having an unconventional family. I reflect upon my own unconventional family living with my Puerto Rican Jewish mom and Chinese siblings as a high school teenager. I conclude with tips...
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Episode 7
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Episode 6 | Staying Positive: Smell the sopa de calabaza and corn tortilla
This episode invites listeners to foster gratitude and positive energy despite prevailing life challenges. As a former homeless youth, I tried to see the glass half full, which kept me going towards my master plan of going to college des...
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Episode 6
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